Robert Berman, known as Bob Berman, is an American astronomer, author, and science popularizer. He runs Overlook Observatory in Woodstock, New York, USA. He was an adjunct professor of astronomy at New York’s Marymount College located in Westchester County, from 1996 to 2000 and has appeared on CBS This Morning, the Today Show, and the Late Show with David Letterman. In 1976, Berman founded the Catskill Astronomical Society. From 1986 to 1994 he ran the summer astronomy program at Yellowstone National Park. He was the "Sky Lights" and "Night Watchman" astronomy columnist for Discover from 1989 to 2006. He is currently Astronomy Magazine's "Strange Universe" columnist and contributing editor. He also is the astronomy editor of The Old Farmer's Almanac. He has led aurora and eclipse expeditions as far away as the Arctic and Antarctic.
Author and Astronomer Bob Berman joins us this week to discuss how Biocentrism views life and consciousness as the keys to understanding the universe.
We look at Berman’s most recent co-authored book on the biocentric ‘theory of everything’, he shares his own ecstatic experience, and we try and wrap our heads around the claim that there is no independent external universe outside of biological existence.
In our Plus+ extension we look at history’s ignored prophets and how their patterns of prediction reveal warnings of a future calamity.